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František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech (
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composer, musician and very likely a student of
Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...
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Life

Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in
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(Northern
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, present-day Czech Republic). His parents were servants of the Counts of Morzin; František also started to work for them as a musician. Count Václav Morzin () sent him to Venice in 1724 to improve his musical abilities. His teacher was probably Antonio Vivaldi himself. Count Václav Morzin was a very important supporter of Vivaldi (Vivaldi dedicated his famous '' Four Seasons'' to him). In 1726 Jiránek came back to Prague and worked as a
violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
ist in the Prague ensemble of Václav Morzin. Antonín Reichenauer and
Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north of W ...
also worked in this ensemble. After the death of Václav Morzin in 1737 Jiránek left Prague and was employed by the Prime Minister of
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in
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. In Dresden his work was informed by the rise of
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. After the death of Brühl in 1763 he retired and died in Dresden in 1778.


Works

Only Jiránek's instrumental works have been preserved (e.g.
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s,
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or
concerto A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The ...
s). His work was strongly influenced by Vivaldi's musical style, although it has also many original distinctive elements. In fact their styles are so similar that Jiránek's works have occasionally been misattributed to Vivaldi. See, for example, the Violin Concerto in D major RV Anh. 8, which is now known to have been a Jiránek composition, catalogued as Jk Ap. 1.


Discography

* In 2010
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issued the CD ''František Jiránek / "Concertos & Sinfonias"'' with recordings by ''Collegium Marianum''. * In 2016 Supraphon issued a second CD ''František Jiránek / "Concertos"'' with ''Collegium Marianum''.


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References

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